Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

A massive, mysterious fossil unearthed in Antarctica has been identified as the first fossilized egg ever found on the ...

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Survivors of the devastating Typhoon Rai in the Philippines are suing oil giant Shell, blaming it for exacerbating climate ...

Oil giant Shell plans to boost fossil fuel production even as the company says it still aims to zero out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Critics concerned about climate change say to meet that ...

Royal Dutch Shell buried a bombshell in its recently released 2013 annual report. Amid 200 pages of predictably and mind-numbingly dry text, the world’s seventh-largest oil company foreshadowed ...

A new fossil discovered by researchers might leave fans of turtles a little shell-shocked. A study published in the journal Nature finds a fossil from a turtle roaming Earth 228 million years ago had ...

Hate to say it, but T-Rex never made it to Florida. The Sunshine State was undersea when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. That makes it even more remarkable that Florida is a hotbed of fossil collecting ...

The case is the first civil claim to directly link an oil firm’s climate impact to deaths and personal injury in the Global ...